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Prometheus
Believe in what you can see
Believe in what you can touch
Believe in what you can feel
Believe in what you can measure
Cognition is achieved by observation
Be eager to explore and expand the frontiers of knowledge
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer
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Antiparallel Entities
04:16
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Antiparallel Entities
The blueprints of life
Are circular entanglements
Spiral treads descending
It's built to divide
Built to divide...
Nucleotides fill the void
Complementary strands of bonds
Weak but numerous
Merging helical strands
Antiparallel entities define who we are
Organized in codons, a sequence of three
The essence of longevity lies in molecular tools
If those are broken, we alter, we mutate, we fade, we die
See the extraordinary beauty That life starts from nothing DNA neither knows nor cares DNA just is no design, no purpose, no evil, no good But blind pitiless indifference
The essence of longevity lies in molecular tools
If those are broken, we alter, we mutate, we fade, we die
Nucleotides fill the void
Complementary strands of bonds
Weak but numerous
Merging helical strands
The blueprints of life
Are circular entanglements
Spiral treads descending
It's built to divide
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AlphaHelix-BetaSheet
04:52
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AlphaHelix-BetaSheet
Oxidoreductase
Transferase
Hydrolase
Lyase
Isomerase
Ligase
Translocase
Oxidation and reduction
Transfer of functional groups
Breaking bonds with the power of water
Cleaving bonds with force
Transforming
Covalent linkage
Molecule transport
Catalysts accelerate processes
To sustain life reaction rate
Increased by the lowering
Of activation energy
Too small to be seen
Yet so complex
An agglomerate
Of twisted helices
A creature that was born between ribosomal pleats
Bequeathing an enigma of mammoth proportion
Sheets upon sheets upon sheets
Helices, helices, helices
Alpha and beta, alpha and beta
Folds that form a three dimensional space
Machinery of life
Reason of being
Child of the maternal ribosome
Embedded in
Myriads of genes
Build from pricks
In codes of three
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Necrosis
05:14
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Necrosis
Cells suffer necrosis
When exposed to extreme environmental stimuli
Adverse and excessive
When deleterious mutations encoded in the DNA
Result in ultra-structural and morphological features
Accompanied by extensive swelling of the cell
That contrasts sharply those
Undergoing apoptosis
Terminal
Irreversible
Absolute
The fate is sealed
A passive process not requiring synthesis
Minimal energy requirements
Not regulated by any homeostatic mechanism
The dominant concept
That has permeated
Stipulated that necrosis
Is merely the chaotic breakdown
Of a cell under intolerable conditions
Terminal
Irreversible
Absolute
The fate is sealed
Once triggered, it is inevitable
First, intracellular calcium increases
Next, calpains become activated
Finally, death
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Phospholipidosis
06:02
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Phospholipidosis
Cytosolic inclusions of lysosomal origin
Caused by inhibition of catabolic processes
Lamellar bodies piled with non-degradable cargo
Destined to prevail in a dysfunctional state
Inherited
Induced
Obtained
Defect
Lysosomotropism
Drugs protonated and trapped
Unable to escape
But imprisonment becomes fatality
The CAD induced death
Derives from the displacement
Of interaction between the surface
Of ILVs and phospholipase activities
Intraluminal vesicles, negative of charge
Associate with complexes
To ensure order of
Lysosomal degradation of material derived
From catabolism
Hydrolyzed and utilized
Cytosolic inclusions of lysosomal origin
Caused by inhibition of catabolic processes
Lamellar bodies piled with non-degradable cargo
Destined to prevail in a dysfunctional state
Intraluminal vesicles, negative of charge
Associate with complexes
To ensure order of
Lysosomal degradation of material derived
From catabolism
Hydrolyzed and utilized
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Occam's Razor
04:27
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Occam's Razor
The law of the simplest explanation
Referred to as Occam's Razor
Law of parsimony, preferable to complex ones
As they are more testable
Entities should not be multiplied without necessity
Select the simplest
Logical elegance
By reducing the number
Of unsupported assumptions
You reduce the likelihood
Of being wrong
Take pride in your privilege to explore
The frontiers of knowledge
Logical elegance
Occam's Razor is merely a methodological precept and no law of nature
To elucidate what is still unknown, one is required to...
Form a hypothesis
Prepare for observations
Evaluate measurements
Strife for quantification
If evidence sufficiently
Supports the assumptions
Then the alternative one is rejected
And proceed as followed:
You will be deleted
Abolished
Dead
No one will remember
Existence
Denied
You won't be heard
No escape
Tod
Schlussendlich
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Bias
06:50
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Bias
No competence
No experience
No measurements
No sagaciousness
No rationale
Only ignorance
And deceptiveness
They can't comprehend the truth
But have a thousand arguments against it
No self-critical examination
But a master's confidence
With faith in mind claiming
To possess the absolute truth
In silence you can hear their choir
The biased ones dwell in houses of saliva
Spit by masters praying with split tongues
Convoluted minds in well fed bodies
Seeking facts unwilling to concede
The biased ones dwell in houses of dejection
Shit by masters playing with split tongues
Ruminating words with mouths full of sickness
Reckless demolition of sanity
I call upon thy name, deceiver
I call upon thy name, betrayer
I call upon thy name, perverter
I call upon your name, scum
The illusion of wisdom
Is the highest danger
Emitted by many
In the vortex of ill-bred
No competence
No experience
No measurements
No sagaciousness
No rationale
Only ignorance
And deceptiveness
I call upon thy name, deceiver
I call upon thy name, betrayer
I call upon thy name, perverter
I call upon your name, scum
The illusion of wisdom
Is the highest danger
Emitted by many
In the vortex of ill-bred
Their vision of enlightenment
Has dissolved into darkness
There is no ascension
Only an endless abyss
In silence you can hear the choir
The biased ones dwell in houses of saliva
Spit by masters praying with split tongues
Convoluted minds in well fed bodies
Seeking facts unwilling to concede
The biased ones dwell in houses of dejection
Shit by masters playing with split tongues
Ruminating words with mouths full of sickness
Reckless demolition of sanity
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Diffraction
03:56
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Diffraction
My eyes are resting on you, my arms still numb
City center, 8 P.M., burning lights in carmine red
It feels warming like fire, but it won't last that long
Your voice, so distant can't reach me anymore
November, the leaves wither, behind my every move
I hold my heart against the engulfing dark
The venoms rush inside our veins
In the blink of an eye
The scene has turned white
Your nails cross my skin
Every second we count
Is part of the lie
How cold are the flames?
We're freezing to death
The seasons turning
Our bodies dying in an ash grove
Every second we breathe
Is a part of the lie
Fears cast into blood and flesh
Come into view
There must be an end to this
Your body, so white
Crystals of ice
Pale the lips once red
The scene breaks apart
The venoms rush inside our veins
In the blink of an eye
The scene has turned white
Your nails cross my skin
Every second we count
Is part of the lie
How cold are the flames?
We're freezing to death
My eyes are resting on you, my arms still numb
City center, 8 P.M., burning lights in carmine red
It feels familiar as if this happened to me before
Your voice so distant can't reach me anymore
I'm running, the leaves wither behind my every move
I feel like I'm trapped in an endless loop
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Amelia
05:18
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Amelia
A faint glimmer from dying lamps
A pale streak of cold grey light
Can death part us? No! I'd return to you from the grave
The dead who die at peace with god are happy in heaven
They cannot return to troubled earth
It is only the suicide, the lost wretch
On whom sorrowful angels shut the door of paradise
Whose unholy spirit haunts the footsteps of the living
He refused her
Drowning
Choking
Dying...
"Suicides are always handsome", says the painter
And then he stands for a little while, idly smoking and meditating
Looking at the sharp outline of the corpse
And the stiff folds of the rough canvas covering
In the sunset
Watching the rose-coloured light glow
Fade and die upon the river
A faint glimmer from dying lamps
A pale streak of cold grey light
Can death part us? No! I'd return to you from the grave
My dear, my dear
I believe I promised you to come back from the dead if you wanted me
And again these fair arms will be clasped round your neck
As they once were, maybe even tighter
He refused her
Drowning
Choking
Dying...
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Messiah
04:21
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Messiah
What made you think it was god?
Did you not hear what I just said about the brain's ability to perceive what it wants to?
In the name of his holy majesty
The god emperor of men
I thrice judge the excommunicate traitoris
By actions, associations and by beliefs
You were a dying man on a battlefield
Surrounded by dead comrades
You were having an epiphany of the futility
Of the life you had led
Surely you can think of another explanation for this vision, Uriah
A more likely explanation that does not require the supernatural?
Forceful imposition of beliefs
Results in ubiquitous agony
Underlying tenets may be sound
Yet man leaves shattered worlds and deceivers being crowned
I heard the voice of god and saw his face
He bore me up and set me into a deep slumber
And when I awoke, my wounds were healed
I need no other explanation
In the name of his holy majesty
The god emperor of men
I thrice judge the excommunicate traitoris
By actions, associations and by beliefs
Didn't you just tell me of the bloody slaughters perpetrated by crusaders?
Doesn't that make you no better than the holy men you were telling me about?
The difference is: I know I am right!
It is a dangerous road you travel
To deny humanity, a thing will only make them crave it all the more
And if you succeed in this grand vision of yours, what then?
Beware that your subjects do not begin to see you as a god
Forceful imposition of beliefs
Results in ubiquitous agony
Underlying tenets may be sound
Yet man leaves shattered worlds and deceivers being crowned
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Desmotes
03:10
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Desmotes
As your anger and fear fades
The angel choir falls silent
You break the chains
And the palace of glass shatters
As you accept the burden of being
With a clear mind and open eyes
The veil, it falls and the mist clears
No spirituality, no mysticism
Never cruel or cowardly
Never give up, never give in
And if you ever are, always make amends
No more!
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